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May 21
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@98 -- I'm sorry, you are right. I muddled my math there. Mostly because I was under the impression she was still 14, not 15. The ages have been less than consistent in the news. But still, suppose we split the diference and say it's a 3 yr, 7 month gap. That's a lot different than the first article I read wherein the gap was 'advertised' to be closer to just over a year, not a nearly four year gap. That's an awfully big gap in terms of maturity.
May 21
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
MissPiggy -- Right now, as best I can tell from offical documentation the age gap is much closer to five years than three. I do think five is an awful lot.
May 21
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
So, by the way, the age of consent in FL is 18, and the Romeo and Juliet laws can only be used when the younger partner is 16 years of age or older. So legally, this is tagged and bagged.
May 21
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@91 -- pretty much all of that.
@78 -- no, that shit was NOT normal where I grew up. Sorry, but I think you are waaaay off base. And also, they were having sex, full stop. This wasn't some make-out with some clothed rubbing or an exploratory handupshirt. This was sex, and let's make no mistake about that. Also, there is no evidence that the younger girl was abused, period. She ran away from home for undisclosed reasons right now, one of which might the fact that she's 14 and over-dramatic. One of which might be that her parents are religious nut jobs, but neither of us know that.
Also, I didn't say that high schools having sex were automatically sexual predators, I was saying that an 18 year old banging a 14 year old who is relying on the 18 year old for a roof over her head and food in her mouth sure as &^%$ looks like a power-imbalanced relationship. This Kaitlyn girl sounds like a predator who abused her much younger girlfriend to get some sex. If it makes me heartless to call it how I see it, then whatever.
Finally, the WORLD won't suffer regardless of what happens to Kaitlyn. Don't be so damn dramatic.
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@78 -- no, that shit was NOT normal where I grew up. Sorry, but I think you are waaaay off base. And also, they were having sex, full stop. This wasn't some make-out with some clothed rubbing or an exploratory handupshirt. This was sex, and let's make no mistake about that. Also, there is no evidence that the younger girl was abused, period. She ran away from home for undisclosed reasons right now, one of which might the fact that she's 14 and over-dramatic. One of which might be that her parents are religious nut jobs, but neither of us know that.
Also, I didn't say that high schools having sex were automatically sexual predators, I was saying that an 18 year old banging a 14 year old who is relying on the 18 year old for a roof over her head and food in her mouth sure as &^%$ looks like a power-imbalanced relationship. This Kaitlyn girl sounds like a predator who abused her much younger girlfriend to get some sex. If it makes me heartless to call it how I see it, then whatever.
Finally, the WORLD won't suffer regardless of what happens to Kaitlyn. Don't be so damn dramatic.
May 21
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@69 -- 14 isn't a sophmore, it's a freshman.
And since I get a predatory vibe off the older girl, no, I don't think a felony and 15 years is too harsh. I've seen what sexual abuse does to people, more than once, and I've seen what sexual predators do to people, again, more than once. It's disgusting and it can and does destroy lives so I really don't feel bad about nipping this one in the bud.
And since I get a predatory vibe off the older girl, no, I don't think a felony and 15 years is too harsh. I've seen what sexual abuse does to people, more than once, and I've seen what sexual predators do to people, again, more than once. It's disgusting and it can and does destroy lives so I really don't feel bad about nipping this one in the bud.
May 20
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@52 -- I'm not saying this sort of thing doesn't happen innocently. It does. Sometimes there's nothing there. But there is something weird about the details in that avadavit.
May 20
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@49: in the avadavit ArmyGuy provided, the charges were pressed in early Feb. They didn't sit on it, it sounds like they figured out that sex had happened and went screaming to the cops. The religious aspect may have given them more fervor, more spark, but you have an 18 year old banging a 14 year old that is in VULNERABLE situation. This is a classic predatory move. Even if it is innocent, it looks really suspect.
Shit might have hit the fan harder because the daughter was a lesbian, or bicurious and acting on those feelings, but she still slept with an adult while she was just barely the age of consent. This is not, IMO, a case of parents over-reacting. I think any parent should hit the roof if their kid is in a relationship with an ADULT. There is a 3.5 year age difference here or more.
Shit might have hit the fan harder because the daughter was a lesbian, or bicurious and acting on those feelings, but she still slept with an adult while she was just barely the age of consent. This is not, IMO, a case of parents over-reacting. I think any parent should hit the roof if their kid is in a relationship with an ADULT. There is a 3.5 year age difference here or more.
May 20
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@47.... Sorry you think I'm a troll, but the truth is that about a year and a half ago I found out that someone I had considered a close friend (not the one in the story above) was into the pre-pubescent thing in a very predatory way. It shook my world, hard. I had been wishy-washy on the grey area of teens screwing around with teens but I decided then and there that I was going to wake up and pay attention to red flags like are all over this story.
May 20
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@45, thanks.
So, some thoughts:
I have a friend that got messed up with a 15 year old when he was 19, but she'd told him she was much older than she was (Everyone thought she was twenty. Including me when I saw a picture of her from when they first got together.) So I understand that sometimes young people look a lot older, but see, my friend met his girl at a bar so he had reason to believe she was at least 19. This girl met her girlfriend at high school and KNEW she could be an underclassman. She never checked that out? She never figured out that the girl was a freshmen? Despite not seeing her at the school before that school year? This seems odd.
Secondly, who has sex in the school bathroom? That's just weird to me. There's always that one kid that gets caught playing with himself but I've never heard of someone screwing in the bathroom.
Thirdly -- the younger girl runs away to the older girl's home? This raises reg flags to me. I can't quite put my finger on this situation, but it's really not sitting right with me at all.
So, some thoughts:
I have a friend that got messed up with a 15 year old when he was 19, but she'd told him she was much older than she was (Everyone thought she was twenty. Including me when I saw a picture of her from when they first got together.) So I understand that sometimes young people look a lot older, but see, my friend met his girl at a bar so he had reason to believe she was at least 19. This girl met her girlfriend at high school and KNEW she could be an underclassman. She never checked that out? She never figured out that the girl was a freshmen? Despite not seeing her at the school before that school year? This seems odd.
Secondly, who has sex in the school bathroom? That's just weird to me. There's always that one kid that gets caught playing with himself but I've never heard of someone screwing in the bathroom.
Thirdly -- the younger girl runs away to the older girl's home? This raises reg flags to me. I can't quite put my finger on this situation, but it's really not sitting right with me at all.
May 20
MameSnidely commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@39: Okay, that's worse than what I read earlier. I wonder which story is true tho...was it 13 and 16, or 14 and 18, if so, when did they actually become more than friends?
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